Cabinet



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W. A. DUNN.

CABINET.

Patented June 9,1891.

No. 453,883. I

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. ttorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM A. DUNN, OF BEAUREGARD, MISSISSIPPI.

CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,883, dated June 9, 1891. Application filed February 24, 1891- Serial No. 382,435. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM ANDREW DUNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beauregard, in the county of Copiah and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Cabinet; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in a cabinet, and its novelty will be fully understood from the following description and claim when taken in connection with the annexed-drawings; and the objects of my invention are to provide a device for railroadoffices that will enable a station agent to place his tickets, bills of lading, and baggagechecks in separate compartments but in one cabinet. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view. Fig. 2 is a side View. Fig. 3 is a front view showing door raised, also ticket-compartment. Fig. 4 is a frontview showing door raised, also check-department. Fig. 5 is a sectional side view showing slides or grooves for door and other compartment. Fig. 6 is a sectional front view showing weights and pulleys of door. Fig.7 is a sectional front view showing working of ticket and check department. Fig.8 is a side view of check-compartment. Fig. 9 is a side view of ticket-compartment. 'Fig. 10 is atop view of door. Fig. 11 is a side view of drawer. I Similar letters and figures refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A shows a door which can be raised or lowered 'by means of weights 5, which are attached to a cord which passes over pulleys 4:.

B are drawers.

O is a ticket-compartment, and D a check and bill-of-lading compartment. These shifting compartments are connected by means of a cord passing over pulley 6, as shown in Fig.

. 7, so that as one compartment is lowered for door A being raised.

use the other is raised, and when in use occupy the positions shown in Figs. 3 and l, the 1, 2, 3 are grooves for door and compartments. The compartment 0 may be so constructed as to place tickets in a position that will enable them to be handled, as desired,with receptacles for mail or other matter. The compartment D is also constructed so as to facilitate the handling of baggage-checks, bills of lading, or other documents.

In practice the compartments 0 and D are filled with such matter as may be desired, and when in use occupy the positions shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Thus, for instance, should it be desired to sell a railway-ticket, the station agent places the compartment 0 in the position shown in Fig. 3 by simply raising the door A and pressing downward upon 0 until it is in the position as shown in Figs. 3 and '7, D when not in use occupying the position as shown in Fig. 7 and resting out of view. hen it is desired to use the compartment D, the compartment 0 is raised and D occupies the position shown in Fig. 4:. here desired, a sliding leaf may be placed just over the drawers B and pulled out in such a manner as to form a suitable device for writing \VILLIAM A. DUNN.

Witnesses:

HELMUTH HoLTz, EUGENE LIMONGI. 

